Chapter 454: Chapter 454: Jealousy, Overload!

Inside the pitch-black haunted house, it felt as if the base color had been swapped out — a pink glow seeped through everything.

The way that color washed over the place was eerie. There was nowhere for light to reflect off, and nothing seemed to be casting it.

It was just that the moment Lu Ce finished speaking, the entire backdrop of the world suddenly changed hue!

Xie Antong, whose words had just been interrupted, looked at the drastic change in her surroundings and surprise flashed across her eyes.

Clearly, this shift in color wasn’t from her; it had to be related to Sin.

This guy — how many tricks does he have?

Sun’s body slid along the ground, one hand digging hard into the earth and gouging a long furrow. The soil had been blackened into scorched earth by intense heat.

He also noticed that, among the places where flames hadn’t burned the ground he was holding, everything was mysteriously pink!

Sun: ?

In his impression, Sin’s only real weakness might be his relatively low spiritual power.

But now, the man kneeling on the ground with a twisted face was suddenly surging with spiritual energy.

It wasn’t just rising — it was violently agitated, shooting up and plunging down at high speed with zero stability.

Spiritual energy is an intrinsic attribute of a person, like height or weight. It shouldn’t wildly fluctuate in a short period.

To someone like Sun, who had keen spiritual perception, Sin looked like a lump of putty — constantly swelling and shrinking, deforming at will.

“You mean... spiritual energy can act like the stock market now?”

Aside from Sun’s ill-timed remark, Lu Ce’s laughter echoed through the pale pink space — a sound that was part agony and part exhilaration.

“Heh... Ha... Heh...”

Under that pink face came fragmented, strange noises.

Like an old rusted disk skipping, offering meaningless sounds.

He forced one hand to press against his face; judging by the bony knuckles, it seemed like he wanted to crush his own face.

But his face no longer had the boundaries of a mask and flesh.

— It was a lump of pink rotten mud!

Lu Ce’s hands began to claw at his own face wildly, pinching and kneading it as if molding his own features.

“Heh... Hahahahaha!”

While casually pinching his face, he emitted all kinds of unintelligible laughter that made onlookers’ sanity dip.

It felt like he was the only real specter in the entire haunted house.

His current image left the viewers watching the game hesitant to comment; many felt a bit unsettled.

[This is... way too Cthulhu-esque. Sin is looking less human — what the hell is that?]

[Kind of scary. That appearance made me furrow my brows.]

[I don’t know what this “Joy” thing is, but honestly, Sin in this state is far scarier. It’s pure hell.]

This unsettling image naturally made Joy feel something amiss.

Although it didn’t want to admit being wary of the human before it, the eerie transformation still put it off balance.

Snap!

While Joy was slightly distracted and not fully focused on the soul inside its body — Xie Antong — a single finger snap suddenly sounded.

Xie Antong’s eyes cleared in an instant, and she looked at Sin with a grave expression.

To be honest, Lu Ce’s current state worried her as well.

She knew that, based on previous patterns, he was attempting a special state of temporarily skyrocketing power.

But... wasn’t that mask a tad too terrifying?

What level of mental chaos was he carrying into battle each time?

After frowning briefly, she spoke to herself aloud:

“In the last special ranking reward, I obtained a unique skill.”

“It’s called ‘Mana Amplification.’ I can create positive feedback to amplify my own or others’ abilities.”

“In simple terms, if someone throws a fireball, I can magnify it; if someone is weakened, I can make them weaker.”

Sun: ?

Sun glanced left and right, looked at Xie Antong speaking to no one in particular, then at Sin who seemed deranged and out of his mind, and felt dumbfounded.

“Not to be rude... who are you talking to?”

“Is there anyone else here? Why are you giving a self-introduction — who asked you?”

Xie Antong shot him a look but said nothing.

The next second, her gaze suddenly hardened and she began to scream hysterically!

“Damn it! Damn it!”

Then she grabbed at her own throat — Xie Antong’s throat — hard.

“Just be a container and behave like one!”

She squeezed the neck forcefully, but after a moment she slowly released, leaving a bluish-purple mark.

Joy really wanted to destroy this body, but for now it was stuck inside it.

It was truly vexing that someone it had never paid attention to could repeatedly resist its corruption.

This was too strange.

“After this is over, I will completely annihilate your insect mind.”

Joy’s voice came through Xie Antong’s mouth, grinding with hatred.

“You sure know how to say the least pleasing things.”

A voice came from directly ahead. Lu Ce, his face turned to rotten mud, spoke.

Joy said nothing, only frowned and raised a hand. From its palm shot a pillar of golden energy, which it blasted at Sin.

No matter what changes were happening to him, hit first and see what happens.

But then Joy’s pupils contracted sharply!

It saw an utterly unbelievable scene.

— The other side also casually raised a hand, and in Sin’s palm a beam of light shot out and collided with Joy’s beam!

Their auras and power were exactly the same!

Jealousy, overload!